Spinning Clio

John F. Wasik, The Cul-De-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream . After detailing the recent bursting of the housing...

In Warwick and Cranston, Rhode Island, Gaspee Day commemorates the sinking of the HBMS Gaspee by Rhode Islanders in 1772. From Wikipedia: ...

A couple years ago, while dismantling a piece of contemporary policy-wonkism, Jim McCormick explained Peter Heathers' Fall of the Roman...

Doug Stanton, Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Stor of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan . Almost immediately afte...

New color photos of Hitler have been released and are published in Life magazine. As a kid who grew up (mostly) in the age of all-color TV...

Mary Beard reviews T. P. Wiseman's Remembering the Roman People : This book is ground-breaking for its simple suggestion that the ideol...

Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was established by Royal Charter in 1663 : Because titles to these lands rested only on Indian deed...

Thomas M. Truxes - Defying Empire:Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York Everyone in colonial New York City traded with the enemy (the ...

CSPAN has another Presidential rating survey out. I don't have time for an extended "review" (well, frankly, my general resp...

I couldn't pass up pointing to this story : The disease, which struck Europe in the Middle Ages killing more than 25 million people, has...

Douglas E. Schoen and Michael Rowan, The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America . In the Preface, Schoen and Rowan e...

According to Professor Ferenc Szasz , contemporary "rap battles" (which I thought originated from "the dozens") "de...

I mentioned my new Burgundians in the Mist blog earlier. Turns out I had inadvertently restricted access. That's been rectified and it...

Patrick Reddy has a fair recounting of the Bush Presidency and how history will view it. His conclusion ( emphasis added ): What will be ve...

From the Politico : [T]here are early rumblings of a backlash to Obama's ostentatious embrace of all things Lincoln, with his not-so-sub...

I took the shears to the blogroll and links (to the right) pruned a lot and planted a couple new ones. Oh, and I clipped the post ":...

I've decided to go in a new direction and start blogging about that area of history most near and dear to my heart--the history of the B...

Tim Lacy is worried that historians are engaged in "a dichotomous conversation" based on their ability to pay for (and thus acces...

Bill Murphy, Jr., In a Time of War: The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point's Class of 2002 . Bill Murphy writes: Todd Bryant and h...

It took historians a full term of George W. Bush's presidency before they declared he was " the worst president ever. " Now, ...